Vocab 1

Question 1

Acquiesce

Answer 1

To comply, submit

Question 2

Auspice

Answer 2

Favoring, protecting, or propitious influence or incidence

Question 3

Cajole

Answer 3

To impose on or dupe by flattering

Question 4

Conservatism

Answer 4

Tendency to adhere to the existing order of things

Question 5

Emaciate

Answer 5

To wast away in flesh

Question 6

Emigrate

Answer 6

To go from one country, state, or region for the purpose of settling or residing

Question 7

Hinder

Answer 7

To obstruct

Question 8

indolent

Answer 8

Habitually inactive or idle

Question 9

Macrocosm

Answer 9

The whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which many related

Question 10

Moratorium

Answer 10

An emergency legislation authorizing a government to suspend some action or civil rights temporarily

Question 11

Negligent

Answer 11

Not following through on a responsibility

Question 12

Pentameter

Answer 12

In prose, a line of verse containing five units or feet

Question 13

Preferential

Answer 13

Possessing, giving, or constituting preference or priority

Question 14

Recurrent

Answer 14

Returning from time to time especially at a regular or stated intervals

Question 15

Reprehensible

Answer 15

Censurable

Question 16

Shrewd

Answer 16

Characterized by a skill at understanding and profiting from circumstances

Question 17

Subvert

Answer 17

To bring to ruin

Question 18

Transgress

Answer 18

To break the law

Question 19

Variation

Answer 19

Modification, slight change to the original

Question 20

Volatile

Answer 20

Unstable, changing rapidly